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Incredibly detailed world building here taking the reader to the bustling and sacred city of Tenochtitlán, apart form the wonderful detail the dialog here it’s the fact that Enrigue was able to focus on and capture the humanity and awkwardness of a clash of two worlds. Would love to see this translated as a film, gives Tarantino + Sofia Coppola’s "Marie Antoinette"
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If you have the chance, visit. Genuinely surreal place. I love Italy in general but Venice compelled me to write a weird autofiction thing for my book when I was writing it which I just rediscovered but never actually put in the book so:
post Verona a bit of a daze, sure as hell not Shakespeare, but star-crossed enough: the van from the hostel departs, barely makes it to the ferry. Here I am, a confused teenage Tom Ripley, recently eighteen, sailing into the lagoon with all my clothes in a tattered suitcase and a reservation I don’t remember making. I sit above a canal, and I fall in love once again as the water laps at my trainers. The old glassworker indulges my thoughts as the kiln nearly sears my eyebrows off. I dance with visiting English students in a public square and lie about how old I am. I spend much of my time at a restaurant a few blocks from the apartment I stay at petting a cat which I never see again, people watching fellow tourists while acting in denial. Later, I enjoy Italian pop music with someone I share my cigarettes with in a Paris rock club three years later. I look forward to the future.
Mar 1, 2024
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This movie is what reading a book feels like
Apr 17, 2024
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Fascinating semi true story. no one but herzog can make a line like “the horse with glowing eyes smoked a cigar” feel like one of the most poignant things you’ve ever read.
Feb 22, 2024
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The piece of mind that comes from the ability to let go of thoughts and situations that are outside of our control has been pure bliss for me. This book opened my mind to the concept of detaching from external validation and got me to focus more on myself
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A very millennial interpretation of postmodern and existential lit—the entire novel is filled with deadpan, self-aware cynicism. The narrator mocks everything — art, relationships, ambition — yet still seems to be searching for meaning.
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Classic Salvadoran dish, simple and mellow chicken broth and veggies with a side of chicken leg and thigh + Salvadoran tortillas, a must when hitting up ur local Salvi spot
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